This week, we are delighted to welcome Marissa Jackson Sow as a guest blogger!
Marissa Jackson Sow is a scholar of contracts, property, human rights, and international law. After receiving her undergraduate degree from Northwestern University, Marissa earned her J.D. from Columbia Law School, where she served on the Human Rights Law Review, and an LL.M, with merit, from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Professor Jackson Sow began her legal career as a litigation associate at Davis, Polk & Wardwell before serving as a law clerk to the Honorable Sterling Johnson, Jr. on the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York, and to the late Honorable Damon J. Keith on the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. She also served as a visiting scholar of human rights at the West African Research Center in Dakar, Senegal, and as an Acting Assistant Professor of Lawyering at the NYU School of Law, before joining New York City government. Professor Jackson Sow served as the General Counsel in the New York City Mayor’s Office for International Affairs, and as Deputy Commissioner for Community Relations at the New York City Commission on Human Rights. Professor Jackson Sow is currently a Leadership in Government Fellow at the Open Society Foundations and a 2020 Fellow with the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights. She joins the faculty at the St. John’s University School of Law as an Assistant Professor of Law and as a Faculty Director of the Ron H. Brown Center for Civil Rights.
Professor Jackson Sow focuses her scholarship on the human rights implications of contracts and property rights, with a particular focus on race, gender, religion, and the environment. Professor Jackson Sow engages culture, art, philosophy, and is particularly interested in the role that popular iconography plays in social and legal movements. Her work on the role of contracts in sustaining racial capitalism and other systems of oppression is forthcoming in the NYU Law Review, Michigan Law Review, and the Washington & Lee Law Review.
Follow Professor Jackson Sow on Twitter at @marissaesque.
